For the past 4 years, I had watched myself build friendships and make connections with my seniors, and being almost the same age, having similar and sometimes even sharing experiences with them were some of the best there were to be. Although when the time came to say goodbye, I wanted to make sure that […]
Category: Grade 12 Equanimity
KWHS
The KWHS Investment Competition is an initiative from Knowledge@Wharton High School of The Wharton School. It is a 12-week free investment competition for students and educators. While competing we learnt about teamwork, communication, risk, diversification, company analysis, industry analysis and investing from the competition. We as a team of 9 members were responsible for managing a portfolio of $100,000 in virtual […]
Inter-school football competition
Fountainhead school organizes a competition every year in every sport: Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Table Tennis and Athletics. Basketball is my major sport; however, I was really inclined towards football. Last year, I did not get these opportunities as I majorly focused on Basketball. This year there I got called up by the football coach as […]
Komorebi (Culture Day)
We organized this event called ‘Komorebi’ on the world culture day. The main idea behind this event was to spread knowledge and explore different cultures and traditions followed by people across the whole world. The task was to research about different cultures and beliefs of the given country. Their specialties and everything like that. The […]
Night Tournament- Football
On the day of our school night out, our school planned a night tournament which was supposed to be held from 9 pm onwards. We have a night tournament every time on our night outs. This time, I took up the responsibility to organise the football game along with two of my friends. This included […]
Komorebi – Cultural day
As part of a requirement of the English Language and Literature course, we were introduced to Language in a cultural context. Which gave us exposure to a new culture and language. to Komorebi is an event organized by our school. The participants are students themselves. It is about 7 continents and its culture. I was […]
Cleaning the beach!
This was an initiative by Fountainhead School, where we contributed towards the cleaning of dirty beaches in Surat City. We were at the Suvali beach, where there was a lot of plastic, bio-degradable waste. People dump the waste all around the place, not even thinking about the global consequences and repercussions. It looked like a […]
Participating in the Inter-House Athletics Meet
Athletics and sports have played a very vital role in my life ever since my younger years of nursery or kindergarten; I would always be the first one to show up for a track meet or a playground course. In the years between grade 2 and 10, the role of swimming and athletics played a […]
Organizing a championship
Every year there is an Inter School taekwondo championship organized in our school. This year I and two of my friends were given the responsibility to organize this event. In this event we had to take care of everything needed, including writing certificates, giving requirements of things needed on the day of the event, laying […]
KWHS Region 2 in Bangalore
I participated in an international investment competition, KWHS as my CAS project. It was a group of 7, each of the members with a different skill set which I could also learn from them. We were supposed to make an investment portfolio for our client, most of the group members didn’t know anything about investment, but […]